<div dir="ltr">in the yum repo file it usually has a $basearch in the URL </div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:55 PM Horst Severini <<a href="mailto:hs@nhn.ou.edu">hs@nhn.ou.edu</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all, we noticed that on our 64-bit RHEL6 Server nodes, whenever there's a firefox update, the 64-bit firefox RPM is being replaced with an updated 32-bit RPM. I dug a little deeper, and I think the issue might be that while there are both 32- and 64-bit versions in the rhel-6-server-rpms repo, only the 32-bit version is in the rhel-6-server-optional-rpms. At least that's what I gather from the output of 'yum list firefox': Installed Packages firefox.x86_64 60.3.0-1.el6 @rhel-6-server-rpms Available Packages firefox.i686 60.3.0-1.el6 rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Actually, it's even weirder than that. If I uninstall firefox, then I get this: yum --disablerepo=rhel-6-server-optional-rpms list firefox Available Packages firefox.i686 31.1.0-5.el6_5 rhel-6-server-rpms firefox.x86_64 60.3.0-1.el6 rhel-6-server-rpms yum --disablerepo=rhel-6-server-rpms list firefox Available Packages firefox.i686 60.3.0-1.el6 rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Is there a reason for that? I would've expected that either both of them should be provided by and updated in the same repo, or there should only be a 64-bit version at all, like there is for thunderbird: yum list thunderbird Available Packages thunderbird.x86_64 52.9.1-1.el6 rhel-6-server-optional-rpms Is there a way to fix this in the repos? If not, what would be the easiest way to fix it on the client side? I suppose I could add some 'exclude=firefox' statement to the [rhel-6-server-optional-rpms] section in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo, but I was hoping I didn't have to resort to a hack like that. Or are there other yum priority tweaks that could address this? The weird thing is that during a fresh install, it picks the 64-bit version, so I'm not sure why an updated 'favors' the 32-bit version. Maybe rhel-6-server-optional-rpms is updated before rhel-6-server-rpms, and therefore the 'yum update' can only find the updated 32-bit version, and therefore chooses that one? Thanks a lot, Horst _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list <a href="mailto:rhelv6-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">rhelv6-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list</a> </blockquote></div>